The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy Hardcover - 1994 - 1st Edition
by Claudia Goldin (Editor); Gary D. Libecap (Editor)
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Government intervention is perhaps the most universal institutional change in the development economies.
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How has government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to government regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the U.S. economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
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- Title The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy
- Author Claudia Goldin (Editor); Gary D. Libecap (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date September 15, 1994
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226301105 / 0226301109
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.31 x 0.95 in (23.60 x 16.03 x 2.41 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Industrial policy - United States - History, Industrial laws and legislation - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94004931
- Dewey Decimal Code 338.973
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